The creative minds over at the Greek Architecture Design firm, Archivirus created one of the most convenient skate ramps directly into a loft apartment, and whenever you do wish to get some fresh air just step out to the ramp that it built on the terrace.

The Ramp House is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The client requested a “skatable habitat”. The result was a curved form interior, which set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion. In that space, which actually was a roof addition to an existing three- stored building, they tried first to achieve a balanced co-existence between the old and the new. The dominant material was the wood and Archivirus used a wooden pergola and wooden horizontal louvers, which wrap up the whole new structure, ergo connecting the old with the new in a harmonious way. As a result the new volume obtained independence while still remaining an inseparable part
of the whole.

The “skateboarding” element is adopted in every possible way. When the client asked Archivirus to design a home where she could be able to skate, Archivirus immediately eliminated the idea of just putting a mini ramp in the living room.

The challenge of this project was to make a living space where the ramp, the bowl and all the interpretations of those terms would actually become the building elements for this space. Archivirus wanted to make a “ramp house” and not a “house with a ramp”. So they started imagining a space where the straight line would become curved and the flat surface would become a ramp or a bowl. playing with these forms and with the variable transitions which offer, Archivirus’s main goal was to create a functional open space where aspects of daily life would adopt “the feeling of acceleration” which is basically one of the main characteristics of skateboarding.

Having these in mind, Archivirus designed a home where the living room becomes a mini ramp and turns into a bowl to create a partition with the bedroom and the bathroom. Basic house elements such
as the fireplace and storage units are hidden inside the ramp forms. Archivirus also tried to combine the street aesthetics of the skate scene using concrete and the cozy atmosphere of a house using wood.
so concrete walls mold into the floor and then concrete turns into wood to create a ramp partition
with the kitchen. In that way, the whole space is in actual motion and somebody can flow from
one space to the other, skating or walking.